FOOTBALL 2015: Ballarat Football League interactive map and other top stories

FOOTBALL 2015: Ballarat Football League interactive map

LAST year in this very publication we posed the question: just who is going to stop North Ballarat City? Twelve months later and the question is as pertinent as ever. As many other Ballarat Football Clubs have always feared, North City has become the ... >> view original

Former Ballarat man walks 400km to fight depression stigma

And that's what former Ballarat man Nathan Shanahan hopes to achieve by setting off on a journey from his now home town in Mildura to Adelaide while raising funds for charity Soldier On. The ex-Australian solider spent six years of his life serving his ... >> view original

Chance to see birds of prey up close at Ballarat Wildlife Park

A RARE opportunity to see birds of prey up close will take place at the Ballarat Wildlife Park over the school holidays. From Wednesday to Sunday at 1pm during both weeks of the schools holidays, Leigh Valley Hawk and Owl Sanctuary director and head ... >> view original

Michelle and Malcolm Kidd say daughter Erin abused at EW Tipping in Ballarat

In August 2013, she was placed into a "pilot program" in Ballarat in which four children in need of 24-hour care would live together under the care of disability services provider The E. W. Tipping Foundation. The program has since ended and the ... >> view original

Council votes to double Ballarat's tree canopy

URBAN forests will branch out across Ballarat after councillors voted to double the amount of tree canopy in the city. The Urban Forest Strategy, which aims to make Ballarat “cleaner and greener”, was endorsed unanimously by Ballarat councillors at the ... >> view original

Ballarat store sale firms to $1060

VOLUME buyers wanting cattle for winter processing sought weight and condition from a larger than anticipated yarding at Ballarat store cattle sale on Friday. Offering 3000 head at its monthly March market agents received and penned an unusual large ... >> view original

Man who had sex with a horse 'needs help', says Ballarat judge

A naked man spotted having sex with a horse in broad daylight hid down behind the mare to avoid being identified, a court has heard. The 67-year-old, whose name was suppressed on Tuesday by Judge Lance Pilgrim at a County Court sitting in Ballarat, ... >> view original

Rod Stewart drowned out 'horrendous' noise of Cyclone Pam: Ballarat dentist

The Ballarat dentist had been attending a Rotary volunteer meeting on the Pacific archipelago when they were warned a cyclone was on its way. Unlike many locals, he was fortunate enough to be barricaded in a secure concrete hotel and wait until the ... >> view original

Giant Lego flower launches Ballarat Begonia Festival

Nestled in amongst blooming natural beauty in the Ballarat Botanical Gardens is the latest creation by Australia's only Lego certified professional, Ryan McNaught. "We decided on the can can begonia, which is the brightest and nicest if you like," he said. >> view original

Bangalore to Ballarat: Indian billionaire reminisces about Australian brewing days

The sign on the main road into Ballarat read 'Population: 60,106'. It was 1974, and a young Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw had come to study master brewing at the Ballarat School of Mines and Industry. "They'd almost got [the population] exactly to the last ... >> view original